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Updated: May 27, 2025
The charge of impiety was a twofold one, partly for not believing in the gods the State believed in, partly for introducing new “demonic things.” This latter act was directly punishable according to Attic law. What his accusers alluded to was the daimonion of Socrates.
That it was regarded as something singular both by himself and others is evident, and likewise that he himself regarded it as something supernatural; the designation daimonion itself seems to be his own.
Apart from his activities as a religious and ethical personality, his life was that of any other Attic citizen. But in his spiritual life there was certainly one point, but only one, on which he deviated from the normal, namely, his daimonion.
The attack, then, affords no information about Socrates’s personal point of view as regards belief in the gods, and the defence only very little. Both Xenophon and Plato give an account of Socrates’s daimonion, but this point has so little relation to the charge of atheism that it is not worth examination. For the rest Plato’s defence is indirect.
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